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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIOE.

THOS.

D. PAINE, OF SMITHFIELD, RHODE ISLAND..

ROTARY-VALVE WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 5,919, dated November 14, 1848.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, THOMAS D. PAINE, of Smithfield, in the county ofProvidence and State of Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Rotary-Valved Metallic Mu-vsical Vind Instruments; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part ofthis specification, of which-- Figure 1 is a top view of the instrumentand connecting or forcing rod A. Fig. 2 shows the direction taken by thesound when the rod A Fig. 1 is pressed down, and Fig'. 3 is a view ofthe roller and its three valve pipes a, 5, 0.

The improvement consists in the introduction and application of a thirdor center valve pipe b, F ig's. 1, 2, 3 through the roller a2 2/ Figs.1, 2, 3, of the instrument, which said pipe may be round or oval, and isconstructed as follows: I take the roller Fig. 3 common to all rotaryvalved musical wind instruments and insert in the center of the same apipe Fig. 3, horizontally through said roller. After inserting thisthird or center valve pipe c, I then insert the two pipes, a'and c Fig.3 in said roller which are common to all the rollers of saidinstruments. As many of said rollers containing said third or centervalve pipes b as aforesaid can be attached to any one instrument as arenecessary. The advantages of this third or center valve pipe consists inthe shortness, quickness and ease of the action in throwing the wind andsound from the open instrument into the valve crook 0 7) g Figs. l and 2or crooks for producing the tones and semitones not produced by thecommon chords of the open instrument.

The operation of the improvement is as follows. Then the instrument isopen, that is when it is in a situation to give the com-` mon chords ofthe instrument in its natural key, the Wind and sound passes through thethird or center valve pipe, Z), Fig. 2, through the roller and thencethrough the main pipe la Fig. 1 to the bell L Fig. 2 of from o-ne end ofthe roller or rollers to the lingers for the purpose by pressing upon Al of operating or turning the roller one eighth of a turn, instead ofone quarter of a turn as is required in the instruments aforesaid now inuse. I/Vhen the roller is turned one eighth of a turn as aforesaid, itshuts off the' third or center' valve pipe as in Z) Fig. 2 from anycommunication with the valve crook 0, 79, q, Fig. 2 of the instrument orfrom the main pipe 7c Fig. 2 of the instrument and brings one end of thefirst valve pipe c F ig. 2 to match with t-he pipe leading from themouth piece, and the other end of said valve pipe c Fig. 2 to match'with the first end of the valve crook, at 0 Fig. 2, which leads from oneside of the roller through one side of the cylinder in which the rollerturns to the other sidel of the roller at (j Fig. 2 and the first end ofthe second valve pipe a Fig. 2 to match with the other end (I Fig. 2 ofsaid valve crook, and the other end of said second valve pipe a. Fig. 2to match withl the main pipe 7c Fig. 2 leading to the bell L Fig. 2 ofthe instrument, conveying the wind and sound from the mouth piecethrough the first valve pipe c Fig. 2 the valve crook, 0 y) (I Fig. 2the second valve pipe a Fig. 2 and the main pipe j; Fig. 2 to the bell LF ig. 2 of the instrument, and thus giving the intermediate tones andseinitones between the common chords of the instrument by an action onehalf as long as is required in the rotary valve metallic musical windinstruments now in use.

Ihat I claim as my invention and def sire to secure by Letters Patentis- The introduction, use and application of the third or center valvepipe through the roller o-r rollers of all rotary valved metallicmusical wind instruments, the. Whole being combined and operatingsubstantially as herein set forth.

THOMAS D. PAINE.

IVitnesses:

GEORGE DARLING, ALVAH VosE.

